Dr. Medinat Malefakis

Dr Medinat Malefakis joined NADEL as a Senior Lecturer in July 2022, after having been a Research Fellow at ETH Collegium Helveticum and a conflict and humanitarian displacement information analyst at the Norwegian Refugee Council in Geneva. Her focus areas at NADEL is conflict, terrorism, peacebuilding, humanitarian displacement, and development cooperation in fragile contexts. Medinat’s professional work and academic research have focused, among other topics, on Boko Haram’s terrorism in the Lake Chad Basin of West Africa, Northern Ethiopian conflict, social media and the #EndSARS conflict in Nigeria, as well as reintegration and rehabilitation of conflict victims.